Pro Gravity Tour #1

Last weekend was the first stop on the Pro Gravity Tour. A new series this year that picks the best venues from several different series including the Fluidride and Mountain States Cups. Stop #1 was held in beautiful Port Angeles, Washington. Lots of high caliber pros were in attendance as well as a lot of fast juniors! Earlier in the year it was announced that this race would be a world's qualifier for juniors, so you know the competition would be intense! Some rain the night before kept the downhill course nice, tacky and technical, the way it should be.

Katie Holden was on fire all weekend! Winning both her qualifier and final by a good margin! Women's Pro #1!!!


Keith Morelan, Forest Belluzzi, Hans Keisler and Logan Kemp were in an all out battle for that world's qualifying spot! Not one single junior expert rider was looking slow, so having a close-to, if not a perfect run was key to finishing towards the top. When the tacky dirt settled, it was Forest who edged out the other guys with a 2:51.91, good enough for 5th place! Keith was POINT ONE seconds behind him. Logan and Hans finished 34th and 35th respectively, with only three-tenths of a second separating them! Look at the style check on these photos:





Chris Lauber had a bad crash in practice the day before and tweeked his knee a bit. He was still feeling good and ready to race. Keeping it conservative to prevent re-injury he came down mid-pack with a great time in Expert 19-29. Good job!


Alex Amaral had a day to remember (or maybe to forget). During his race run, a lady crossed the track at a blind-spot. By the time she noticed Alex, it was already too late. A collision insued, but luckily both ended up being alright aside from some cuts and bruises. Alex was give a second race run in which a toddler had wandered on to the track, fortunately Alex saw the child ahead of time and moved out of the way, but unfortunately it caused him to go off-course and flip over the bars. Alex was given a third race run and after all the struggle and fatigue he still pulled off a 14th place, beating his qualifying time by 5 seconds. Very impressive Alex!


Special thanks to pinkbike.com for the photos.

Full results can be found here.